Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Best CPU coolers in 2025: I've loaded liquid and air coolers onto today's top processors and these are my favorites
Cool Breeze Our picks for the best CPU coolers will have your processor running cool with air or liquid during the hottest gaming sessions.
If you're picking up a new RTX 5080 or 5090 today, then either of these glorious OLED monitors will be a perfect match
Deal Traditionally dimensioned or super ultrawide, both are a feast for your eyes
This ultra-cool Apollo computer-inspired smartwatch looks rather beautiful but at the same time weirdly incongruous with the fashion-man model shots
news Slap a slice of American engineering history onto your wrist.
MSI says that the supply of its RTX 5090 cards will be very tight, due to a limited supply of GPUs from Nvidia
news Artificial supply constraint or a sign of genuine manufacturing limitations?
You don't need an RTX 5090 or a 4K monitor for gaming when you can play Snake on your monitor's subpixels. But you will need a microscope or a good macro lens
news Or just squint really, really hard.
This spectacular GB202 die shot shows just how massive Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU is but it's not the largest chip it's ever shoehorned into a gaming graphics card
news Count the transistors with me. One, two, skip a few, ninety-two point two billion.
Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2025: I've tried all the best AIO coolers and these are my top picks
Wetware These are the best liquid chip chillers to suit all budgets, form factors, and processors.
If you're looking to upgrade your gaming rig to make it ready for an RTX 5090, here are the best parts to match that gigantic GPU
Deal Like a dating show host, I've picked the perfect CPU, motherboard, RAM, and PSU to get.
Arrow Lake's had three months of Windows and BIOS updates to fix its performance, and my testing shows in some games, it's worse
Wayward arrow I thought fixes were supposed to improve things.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PC performance analysis: Runs well and looks good, but the tight system requirements and dearth of PC-centric options spoil the show
Cloud Nein Limited graphics options, capped frame rates, and a mediocre upscaling system. Gee, thanks Square Enix.
Is time too precious to waste making gurning thumbnails for your YouTube videos? Huzzah for this AI tool that does it all for you, then
news Good to know all those super-expensive GPUs are being used for something so vital.
If you're worried about your RTX 50-series graphics card suffering another 4090-meltgate, MSI's yellow-tipped adapter cables might just give you peace of mind
news Rather than copying another manufacturer's system, MSI is copying its own PSU designs.
Aokzoe teases its next-gen handheld gaming PC and it looks like it's just stuffed a better chip, screen, and battery into its not-bad, not-great A1 Pro
news Which would be absolutely fine, as long as Aokzoe also sorted out its clunky software.
Asus TUF Gaming B860M-Plus WiFi motherboard review
Mid mainstream Gaming in name only but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Best PC controllers in 2025: the pads I recommend for PC gamers
Total control Grab one of the best PC controllers for when your keyboard and mouse simply won't do.
Asus ROG Strix B850-F Gaming WiFi motherboard review
B850 Blues Selling a B850 motherboard at an X870 price means expectations are going to be very high.
Be the Batman in your bedroom with this Meta Quest 3S deal, saving $50 on the 256 GB model
deal Plus you get three months worth of subscription to the Meta Quest Plus service
If you love a big laptop without a big price tag, this RTX 4070 17.3-incher is an ideal pick at $1,300
deal Even though CES 2025 is pumping out new laptop models, older models are still great to game on.
The 2025 Asus ROG NUC looks epic and has some mighty specs but a desktop gaming PC will probably be far better value for money
news That or a decent gaming laptop.
MSI's spangly MEG Vision X AI desktop PC is just the ticket for anyone wanting to recreate that Scotty scene in Star Trek IV
News 'Hello, computer? Why is everything all AI? I just want transparent aluminum.'
Nvidia RTX 50-series and dev kit show that rasterization is old news and we're now firmly in the era of AI rendering
news Though for now, we'll just have to make do with a video as to what it all means for in-game graphics
Intel on its next-gen laptop chip: 'Panther Lake will take everything you love about Lunar Lake to the next level'
news The first chip to be made on Intel's 18A node is on target for release later this year.
AMD and Intel launch mainstream and budget motherboard chipsets at CES but some of the codenames are so similar that I've already mistaken them for each other
news And not just once, either.
